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High Priests and Macedoniarchs from Beroea1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

J. M. R. Cormack
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I. Beroea, in the church of ἡ Μακρὴ Kυριώτισσα, a marble plaque acting as a window sill within the ἱερόν. The plaque has been built into the structure of the church in such a way that the lower half of the inscription is now beyond recovery, while the upper half which projects has in its present position to be read upside down. To this fortunate accident of choice on the part of the builder we owe the preservation of the upper and, no doubt more important part of one of the most interesting inscriptions relating to the Macedonian Koinon yet reported. The inscribed surface is surrounded by a well-cut moulding varying in width from 0·085 to 0·10 m.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 1-2 , November 1943 , pp. 39 - 44
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Copyright ©J. M. R. Cormack 1943. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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Footnotes

1

I am indebted to Mr. M. N. Tod and Professor A. Cameron for some helpful suggestions in the preparation of this paper. The inscriptions here published were examined during a visit to Beroea in the autumn of 1936 in the company of Mr. C. F. Edson of Harvard University.

References

2 A. E. Contotéon, Νέα Σμύρνη, 9th September, 889; Rostovtzeff, , Bulletin de l'Inst. arch. russe à Constantinople (in Russian) iv, 3, 1899, 176;Google Scholar Contoléon, , REG XV, 1902, 141Google Scholar.

3 Bell, H. I., Jews and Christians in Egypt, London, 1924, 23Google Scholar.

4 Bulletin de l'Inst. arch. russe à Constantinople (in Russian) iv, 3, 1899, 183:Google Scholar ‘In Imperial times it was the άρχιεὺς τῶν Σεβαστῶν (sc. who was president of the Koinon) as in the other provinces. Whether there existed in Macedonia conjointly with the ὰρχιερεύς a lay representative also, similar to the Lyciarch, Asiarch, and Bithyniarch, is difficult to say on the basis of the material we have.’

5 It cannot be too often emphasised, however, that parallels are dangerous in this question. Chapot in Daremberg-Saglio, s.v. ‘Sacerdos Provinciae“’ (iv, 947), warns us: ‘Peut-être a priori serait-il prudent de ne pas chercher une solution unique; il put y avoir d'une province à l'autre des différences considérables.’ Pelekides on the other hand holds (p. 73): ‘τὰ δυὸ αὐτὰ ἀξιώματα στὶς γενικές τους γραμμὲς πρέπει νὰ εἷναι παντοῦ ὁμοιόμορφα.’ Each κοινόν must be examined on its own epigraphical evidence without assuming that the Macedoniarch will have the same place in the Macedonian κοινόν as the Lyciarch in the Lycian.

6 P-W s.v. ‘Asiarches’ 1577; ibid. s.v. ‘Bithyniarches’ 541; cf. Stãhelin, P-W s.v. ‘Helladarchai’ 97–8; Perrot, Daremberg-Saglio s.v. ‘Asiarcha’ 467–9; Fougères, ibid. s.v. ‘Koinon’ 832–851.

7 P-W s.v. ‘Lykia’ 2276–2282, ‘Der Lykische Bund’: Pelekides wrongly attributes this section to Deeters, the author of section vii.